You have just graduated from school and have
recently been hired at Egyptology Times magazine as a writer. Your boss has
giving you the opportunity of a life time. He is able to send one person back in
time to Ancient Egypt and he has chosen you. Your job is to interview a god or
goddess from Ancient Egypt, however, you donít know a thing
about Ancient Egypt's gods or goddesses ,so you start asking yourself questions. What was the life of a goddess or god?
What did they stand for? Who
believed in them? Why did they exist? Are they real or just make believe?

You will travel back in time
to 2125 B.C. to Ancient Egypt to find out what gods and goddess they had. You will
arrive at the banks of the River Nile, which is the longest river in the world,
to begin your journey. You will choose a god or goddess to interview from
Ancient Egypt. You will have the opportunity to talk to your god or goddess and
ask them questions. You will then write an article for Egyptology Times telling
your readers all about your god or goddess.

Surf the websites listed to
learn more about your god or goddess. As any good writer you must always have
some prior information about the interview. This will help you come up with 10
questions that you will ask your god or goddess during your interview with
them. You must have two editors ( must be two different peers) review your questions and make sure
they sign and date the edited paper. All the links to your gods are under
resources.

Step 3

Set a meeting with the
magazine publisher ( teacher) by signing in your name for an appointment. Then
you will both review your questions and the publisher will give you some
feedback.

Remember to summit your
questions and final draft of your 10 questions in your portfolio.

Step 4

You will write a letter to the god or
goddess asking them for the chance of an interview. You will suggest a
place to meet, of course you will be traveling back in time. You will
follow the standards of writing a letter. Make sure you include this in
your portfolio.

You may start this task by
brainstorming places you might meet in Ancient Egypt. Keep in mind the kind of
places your god or goddess might like to hang out. What should you wear to the
interview? How should you prepare for your interview?

Step 5

You are at the interview you
might want to write down the mood or anything that stands out. You must also
take good notes that you will be able to read and understand later.

You will also go through
some magazines and look at some articles that other have written for a
magazine. This will help you get an idea or what your article should look
like. This is only to help you guide you must come up with your own original
article.

Step 6

Review your notes and
brainstorm some ideas of what you may want to focus on when you write. You will
write your rough draft of your god or goddess. Then you will edit your own
article, them summit to two different students to edit again. Make sure they
sign and date when the edit your work.

Make sure you include who
this article is written by. You must also include a works cited page.

Step 7

Once again you will set
another meeting with the magazine publisher to go over your article for the
magazine. She will then give you suggestions on your work. Make the changes if
she has asked for changes to be made to your article.

Step 8

You are now ready to publish
your article, but first you will need to include some visuals for your article
page. You must include a picture of your god or goddess in your article. You
may draw a picture, create one with Pix Kids, or copy a picture off the internet
(remember to ask for permission). You are also required to use at least two
other graphics in your article.

Step 9

Organize all your work into your
portfolio of everything that you have done. Once it has been approved the
publisher will include your article in the Egyptology Times.

Step 10

You will read your article
in front of the class and present the information you have found. We will do
this during our designated share time.

You will be required to take notes on each website that you
visit. Please make sure that you include your website notes in your portfolio.
You will also have time at the library to research some information on your god
or goddess.

You may also go to the public library to do your research. Please
make sure you take notes and make sure you cite the books you use.

You will be required to take
notes on each website that you visit. Please make sure that you include your
website notes in your Portfolio. You will also have time at the library to
research some information on your god or goddess.

You may also go to the
public library to do your research. Please make sure you take notes and make
sure you cite the books you use.

We will all have the opportunity to look
through the magazine that we have created as a class. Since we will be studying
about Ancient Egypt throughout the next month we will read a few articles each
day. We will also leave some time for discussion. This will be the end of
our exploration of Ancient Egypt.

In our class journal write a paragraph
about what you thought about the project. What did you like or dislike?
What would you change? Did you learn anything, if so what? Do you have a better
understanding of why Egyptians had gods and goddesses? If you lived in Ancient
Egypt do you think you would worship one of these gods? Why? Would you like to
be a god or goddess? Who would you be and why?

The class will come up with a list of some of the animals that live in your
state. Record them on the chalkboard. Then have the students create new gods and
goddesses using the heads of your local animals. Brainstorm a list of topics
that their deities can symbolize, such as friendship, schools, fun, etc.
Challenge them to make their animal choices match the attribute they represent:
for example, an owl-headed god of schools ("wise as an owl"), a dog-headed god
of friendship ("man's best friend"), a bee-headed god of work ("busy as a bee").

This WebQuest is just
one part of an entire unit of Ancient Egypt . I have required that
students already learn about the culture of Ancient Egypt. They may even
already know some of the gods and goddess. They will also already know why
they even had these gods. This is more on an extension to a unit on
Ancient Egypt.

Have the librarian pull out books on god and goddess of Ancient
Egypt. Make sure you give at least one month advance noticed, if not more.

Send a letter to parents before you start this project. Have
parents and students sign off on the letter sent home.

I would suggest
checking the portfolios every week to make sure that students are doing all
there work. I would have them add each finished item in their portfolio.

Make sure that
you check all the links that I have provided to make sure that they are still
working and that they are still appropriate.

When I built the
webpage all the links were all appropriate and working.

Have magazines
ready for students to look at. You can get these from your school library
or you can purchase old magazines at your city library for .25 or so.

Remind students
that the checklists are there to help them know what they need to do.

After students
choose a god or goddess ask them to summit them to you. I would suggest
making a due date that they have to summit who they have chose.